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I read Stephen Kings Desperation earlier this year and absolutely loved it (5* in my opinion). I then discovered that The Regulators somehow involved the same characters and the same 'Big Bad' but they all had different backgrounds. My mind was reeling at the possibilities. Is this some kind of parallel universe to Desperation? Will this explain the voices in peoples heads from that book? I simply had to read The Regulators to find out.Tak's powers/abilities in this story are different to Desperation. No longer was it using up the physical resources of it host (although we do see what happens if it tries a different host), it can now make the unreal real, pulling characters from Movies and Cartoons into the real world. This did disappoint me. The same villain from the first book but different. I had hoped this would be the lynchpin that linked the two books together. One trans-universal being terrorising the same people in different universes. That may be the case, but it doesn't feel that way. Tak was too different for me.Whist there were a few references to Desperation, nothing occurred that could explain why in that novel David (oddly called Ralphie in The Regulators) was hearing the voice of God, or Johnny was guided by his ex-wifes voice.Perhaps I was too hopeful that these two books that were released at the same time, would have some over-arching great story tied together across them both. Overall it was a really enjoyable story, hence my 4 stars but I was left feeling a little disappointed.